Double Life: My whole world is you

When she got home, she was greeted by two cute little puddings. Yangyang held her left hand and said excitedly, "Qiaojie, I can recite 15 ancient poems now!"

"Qiaojie, I can recite seven or eight, no, ten poems!" Yingying also reported immediately.

"Wow! Great!" Cheng Qiao gave them a thumbs up and asked as they walked, "What kind of poems do you sell?"

"I can recite "Song of the Peasants", "Quiet Night Thoughts", "Spring Dawn"..." Yangyang counted them one by one.

Cheng Qiao listened to them one by one with a smile, and when she got home, she dropped her schoolbag and played with them in a relaxed manner. She didn't stop playing with her cousins ​​until her grandmother called her to eat. She couldn't spend the rest of the time with them, and she had to immediately get into the state of preparation and practice questions. She finished a test paper in Chinese, math and English in the evening before she stopped. It was already eleven o'clock in the evening. She yawned and went to bed, and fell into a deep sleep in less than two minutes. She was used to waking up at five twenty-five in the morning, but her grandmother said, "Today is a rare day off, so get some good sleep."

So she covered her head and fell asleep again. When she woke up again, it was already half past nine in the morning, but this sleep was really comfortable!

As soon as she left the room, she heard the voice of her second aunt, and she immediately quickened her pace and walked out. At this time, her second aunt was in the yard, wearing black trousers and a blue long-sleeved shirt. Everyone came to greet her immediately after hearing her voice. She prepared three portions as usual, one for each of her two aunts and one for her grandmother. Cheng Qiao walked over to her and took the other portion for her.

"You've been having a hard time lately, haven't you?" After putting her things down, the second aunt touched her lovingly, "You've become darker and thinner."

"Not bad! I had a good sleep today." Cheng Qiao replied with a smile.

"You haven't eaten yet?" Second Aunt said as she quickly took out the things she brought from the plastic bag beside her. "The buns and steamed buns are warm. You can have a steamed bun! This is what your sister Hong and I made today."

"Okay!" Cheng Qiao happily took it. There are two flavors of steamed buns, white flour buns and brown sugar buns, about the same size as steamed buns. Cheng Qiao took one of each and finished them quickly.

"Damei is back!" Grandma came in from the living room.

"Mom!" Second aunt hurried over to greet her.

The two chatted for a few words, and the grandmother looked at the big bag and muttered, "Damei, just come back every time and take home big and small bags, and take three at a time. The mountain road is not easy to walk on..."

"Mom, I only buy things during the three festivals a year." The second aunt comforted her and continued, "I have to go back after sitting for a while. Xiaohong is at home with the child. The child is still young and she can't cook."

"Hey, auntie, is Sister Hong's baby born?" Cheng Qiao was a little curious. She remembered that Sister Hong was pregnant during the Chinese New Year.

"Yes! He just turned 100 days old the day before yesterday and came back yesterday." My second aunt answered with a smile.

"Time flies!" Cheng Qiao sighed. She remembered that when she first came back, Sister Hong had just gotten married, and now her child is born. It has been two years since she came back without realizing it!

"Yes! I still remember when you were just born. It was the busy farming season, the time to harvest rice. When your father came back to announce the good news, your aunt said that you were born by chance. When your father died, you were only five years old, and you were almost as tall as Yangyang." Second aunt sighed, "Now you are this big, taller than me. Your father has been gone for 11 years!"

Cheng Qiao nodded! Time always slips away inadvertently, so fast that you don't even have time to reach out.

“Come back after lunch, we’ll eat early…” Grandma saw that the atmosphere was a little depressing, so she said this and took my second aunt out of the room.

Cheng Qiao picked up her schoolbag and had to work hard. When she had just finished a test paper, Yangyang and Yingying ran over to call her to eat. She put away her textbooks and came to her aunt's living room. The living room was very lively at this time. The third aunt came back with Junjie, and the eldest aunt came back with Lulu and Kunkun. Cheng Qiao smiled and greeted the elders and followed the adults to the kitchen to serve the dishes.

My eldest aunt lives far away and she has difficulty walking, so she usually only comes back during the Chinese New Year. My youngest aunt and uncle are away all year round, and Cheng's mother came back two weeks ago. So this Dragon Boat Festival, only my two aunts and my eldest aunt came back.

There weren't many people this time, so they could all sit at a big table. Cheng Qiao sat in a corner with Yingying in her arms, eating a meat bun brought by her second aunt, then a rice dumpling made by her third aunt, and drinking the milk brought back by her eldest aunt. She felt very happy! It would be even better if Cheng Ma and Cheng Zhu were there too!

After dinner, my second aunt helped to clean up the dishes and prepared to leave. Seeing this, my eldest aunt murmured softly, "You are a married woman, but you can't even cook."

Although her voice was not loud, everyone standing together heard it. Second Aunt turned around and smiled at her, "Xiaohong is not very old, and the child is still young. She will learn slowly."

"Second sister, you are the only one who spoils the children. The two children have been spoiled since they were young. It would be fine if Xiaojian had the ability to pass the exam, but Xiaohong is just marrying into an ordinary family. If you don't learn how to do things yourself, you will suffer in the future." The aunt said even more harshly.

The second aunt was a little embarrassed, and grandma patted her and said, "Don't worry about it, go back first! Don't let the two children go hungry."

After saying goodbye to everyone, the second aunt left quickly. Grandma turned around and glared at the first aunt. The first aunt was not convinced, "Mom, am I wrong? Isn't this what you taught us since we were young?"

"Every generation has its own way of living." Grandma Yu glanced at Kun Kun and said earnestly, "Love your own children."

Cheng Qiao agreed with her grandmother's opinion, so she nodded along with her third aunt. But she didn't expect that her eldest aunt would be particularly angry. She stood up and said to her grandmother, "I know you have disliked me since I was a child. I am redundant, so I will leave too."

After she finished speaking, she stood up, hugged Kunkun, and walked out with Lulu. The two aunts and the third aunt hurriedly stood up to persuade them, but they kept arguing until the end and finally returned in vain. Grandma frowned and sighed deeply, "She! She has been rebellious and ignorant since she was a child! She is still the same at the age of 40!"

The third aunt turned back to the grandmother and gently coaxed her, "Fifth sister, she is jealous. Among the eight of us brothers and sisters, she and I are the only ones who are not blessed and do not have a daughter."

The more my grandmother heard her comfort, the more distressed she felt. She said to my third aunt in a tearful voice, "I gave birth to twelve children and raised eight of them. I don't think I have done anything wrong to any of them. The only one I owe is you!"

"Mom, it's okay. I understand." Third aunt sat next to grandma and patted her hands.

My third aunt was adopted by her husband's family when she was three months old. She was never allowed to go to school and was forced to do heavy work since she was young, which resulted in her being less than 1.5 meters tall. This has always been a concern for my grandmother.